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Message-ID: <87wriduvb1.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:54:42 +0200
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Unit tests

Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:29:31AM +0200, Luka Mar??eti?? wrote:
>> I've come up with "C Library Unit Test Suite" - cluts, which sounds like 
>> "klutz" (besides being klutzy of itself).
>
> "cluts" sounds good to me.
>
> What license is it going to be under?  I propose cut-down BSD (to the
> point of being copyright only, with no restrictions):
>
> This software is Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME <your at e-mail.address>,
> and it is hereby released to the general public under the following terms:
>
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted.
>
> This should be compatible with any other Open Source license, which I
> think is a plus.  We currently use this for contributions to JtR:
>
> http://openwall.info/wiki/john/licensing
>
> I see little reason to have GPL-like restrictions on the unit tests;
> I think that would do more harm than good.

A court-proven formulation of this is the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license I think.

> Alexander
-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@...il.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

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